#180 - Blue Hair again

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Yesterday's Nice Thing - Cut and coloured hair with great results, showed people around Belvoir Park Forest, went to Lara's Party




Had my hair cut and coloured again, just before I leave for Singapore. It has been such a busy time for me. In between the meetings and the running I have cleaned everything and watched Stranger Things. I'll go for a run today and then after a shower I'm straight off to the school to do my last day of sorting things out. As I sort things out, I think and mull over things... what will be will be says I...

The trip around Belvoir yesterday was amazing. No one from the group apart from me, had been there. And when I walked them around the place, they were gobsmacked. How could we have never been here? Clearly this was a very Belfast thing. Belvoir Park and the Lagan Valley are very Belfast things I suppose, not Holywood things. Sometimes we can still exist within islands on islands.

Then after that I got my hair cut - and coloured. I love the transformation this brings. And I did this this year because my parents were nagging me for most of the holidays last time to sort my hair out - so, this I have done before the holidays. It is now back to blue and with jade for the first time through it. Bluey Green. I love hair - hair always grows back and you can do a million things with it. Because of the hair I put on some lippy and a short dress. And I felt great.

I also went for my run - so I walked/ran my running route three times yesterday. Then after that I came home, finished off the last bit of laundry and went for the party - FOUND THE IPAD... in Ma's house - yay!!!!

It has been a wonderful winding down. It was sad at Lara's yesterday because people were saying goodbye in a way. But the kids were fine. I suppose I felt fine because I have something to also look forward to. I also managed to get chatting to a parent about a possible space for the kids' exhibition - in the Ulster Museum.

It has been such a productive but in a chilled way week - I still have to write up the notes to the meeting... I think I should do that before I head for my run. Well, last night was the last of the alcohol I had for the rest of the year. I have had some since I met with Anthony on Thursday - but now it is over. I just want to be really healthy in Singapore and run and swim and stretch. And eat well and have no sugar. It has been such a trip. Thank you the universe once again.



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